CRITICAL HIT: MJW turns to crowdfunding for his spaghetti western parody…

I’ve got a fondness for the western movie genre given as I grew up watching many of the classics.

The Louis L’Amour-based movies that often starred John Wayne and Sam Elliot were regular viewing on SABC TV back in the day, and Shane stands out after featuring so heavily in the recent Logan. I also spent a fair bit of time watching spaghetti westerns, such as the epic Dollars trilogy, which starred a young Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name, or the Trinity comedy westerns starring Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer.

This hop, skip, and a jump down memory lane brings me to a movie crowdfunding campaign launched by actor Michael Jai White (Spawn) and his production company Jaigantic Studios (hah – I get it!). He’s turned to crowdfunding site Indiegogo to raise funding for a spaghetti western parody called The Outlaw Johnny Black. It’s a semi-sequel to his 2009 cult hit Black Dynamite, a spoof of ‘70s Blaxploitation action movies, which he teased via Twitter at the end of January. It took us a week to persuade Kervyn to stop talking in tongues and he still mumbles about jive asses and people interrupting his Kung Fu…